Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Learn along with me!

I've never had a blog before, but I'd like to learn how it all works!
I'm going to try adding a photo. Oh! I see a little photo icon just above me. I chose a photo from my computer and selected centered. It seems to have been placed above my typing. Hmmm....I wonder if it can be moved around.
Yes! I clicked on the picture and dragged it down. Now it is below my text.
(By the way, this is a photo of me in September in Alaska; our cruise ship is in the background.) To write below the photo, I used the down arrow to move the cursor. Hey! My font has changed!
I'm going to select this sentence and change the font. That's better.
What else can I do? Is that a video icon I see beside the photo icon? Why, yes it is! I also notice that when I rest my cursor over an icon, there is a little explanation of its function. Excellent. I'll upload a video now.




Hmmm... that's taking a long time. But at least I can still type.

Now let's see if I can add a link. I'll find a site to link to and copy its address. Then I'll highlight a word and click the little chain link icon and paste the address into the window. If you want to see the site I found, click here.

The video is still uploading. What else can I do?
I clicked Preview and saw what the page looked like so far. Then I clicked Hide Preview to close it and come back to composing. I wish I had not centered my photo. I wonder if I can change it. Oops! I clicked on the photo and dragged, but I only caught one of the little handles and ended up stretching my picture.

That video didn't work. Maybe I shouldn't have previewed while it was uploading. I'll try again.



Yay! It worked! That was my grandson and my father playing with a toy snowman.